Blog 15: Manufactured Demand

   In the article "The Story of Bottled Water" there is a myth that Plastic bottles are recyclable, and are being made with thinner plastics, making them increasingly “green.” But after some investigation that is far from the truth, just because bottle water are being made thinner that does not stop the supply and demand for bottled water which makes it hard to get rid after being used.  Researchers found out that some 4 billion PET bottles end up in the U.S. waste stream each year, costing cities some $70 million in cleanup and landfill costs.  A plastic water bottle can take up to 1000 years to deteriorate in a landfill. And plastic bottled water is made out of oil so when is burned in incinerators, it releases dioxins, and the rest get send to other country or disposal. If we as a people keep going this direction it is only going to get worst, there is going to come a time that we are not going to be able to continue to do this process because the planet can take only so much, and we need to find a solution

One solution we can start is by doing research on how clean our water is around your area, another solution if already know the damage buying plastic water does to our planet, just buy a water mug and fill it up every morning before going to work, school or wherever you need to go, make sure you do that effort to make our planet more green. The more research we do the more solution we can come up with, so to solve this issue join organization anything that can help this problem to being solved.